Project Rainbow (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Vector Zero Press, 2026
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Paperback. In 1955, a manila envelope arrived at the Office of Naval Research with two words written across the front: Happy Easter.Inside was an annotated paperback. Three different ink colors. Three different hands. A conversation among voices that called themselves Mr. A, Mr. B, and Jemi - discussing alien races, gravity-field manipulation, and a top-secret 1943 Navy experiment that had supposedly turned a destroyer escort invisible in Philadelphia harbor.The Navy reproduced 127 copies for internal study. Within a decade, the story had escaped into paperback. Within thirty years, Hollywood had filmed it. Within sixty, Netflix had built a billion-dollar franchise on its bones.There was just one problem.It was all written by one man. And he confessed. Repeatedly. For twenty-five years.Nobody listened.The True Story Behind America's Strangest Sea StoryFor seventy years, the Philadelphia Experiment has been told one way: a covert wartime project, a vanishing warship, terrified sailors fused into bulkheads, a cover-up that reaches into the highest levels of American military secrecy. Books have sold millions. Films have grossed millions more. The legend has been absorbed into Stranger Things, into Marvel's Loki, into Doctor Who, into the algorithmic feeds of TikTok and YouTube.This is the first book to tell what actually happened.Project Rainbow is the documented, archive-driven account of how a single Pennsylvania merchant mariner named Carl Meredith Allen - writing under the alias Carlos Miguel Allende from a small apartment in New Kensington - invented one of the twentieth century's most enduring conspiracy theories. And how, despite his repeated and recorded confessions, the legend he created has continued to outpace the truth across seven decades and counting.What You'll DiscoverThe actual ship. USS Eldridge, DE-173 - where she really was on October 28, 1943, documented hour by hour from the surviving war diaries.The real science. Degaussing, the wartime British invention that demagnetized hulls to defeat German mines - and how an ordinary procedure became, in Allen's imagination, the cover for spacetime manipulation.The man behind Allende. Allen's full biography, drawn from family records, Marine Corps service files, merchant marine seaman's papers, and the Greeley Tribune obituary that named him in 1994.The annotated book. What the Office of Naval Research actually saw. Why two career naval officers chose to reproduce it. What the 127 copies of the Varo Edition actually contained.The confessions. All of them. The 1969 APRO retraction inscribed in brown ink. The 1972 suitcase confession. The 1977 audio recording with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. The October 1980 Fate magazine investigation that named Allen on the public record.The afterlife. Gray Barker, Brad Steiger, Charles Berlitz, William Moore, Stewart Raffill, Alfred Bielek, Preston Nichols, the Duffer Brothers - the chain of writers, filmmakers, and showrunners who built a billion-dollar mythology on a fabrication its own author could not stop confessing to.This book gives you the documents. The witnesses. The receipts. The actual physics. And the actual confessions - finally, in one place, after seventy years.This is the book the legend has been waiting for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798235676497
- Título
- Project Rainbow (Paperback)
- Autor
- Gary Covella
- Editorial
- Vector Zero Press
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798235676497
In 1955, a manila envelope arrived at the Office of Naval Research with two words written across the front: Happy Easter.
Inside was an annotated paperback. Three different ink colors. Three different hands. A conversation among voices that called themselves Mr. A, Mr. B, and Jemi - discussing alien races, gravity-field manipulation, and a top-secret 1943 Navy experiment that had supposedly turned a destroyer escort invisible in Philadelphia harbor.
The Navy reproduced 127 copies for internal study. Within a decade, the story had escaped into paperback. Within thirty years, Hollywood had filmed it. Within sixty, Netflix had built a billion-dollar franchise on its bones.
There was just one problem.
It was all written by one man. And he confessed. Repeatedly. For twenty-five years.
Nobody listened.
The True Story Behind America's Strangest Sea Story
For seventy years, the Philadelphia Experiment has been told one way: a covert wartime project, a vanishing warship, terrified sailors fused into bulkheads, a cover-up that reaches into the highest levels of American military secrecy. Books have sold millions. Films have grossed millions more. The legend has been absorbed into Stranger Things, into Marvel's Loki, into Doctor Who, into the algorithmic feeds of TikTok and YouTube.
This is the first book to tell what actually happened.
Project Rainbow is the documented, archive-driven account of how a single Pennsylvania merchant mariner named Carl Meredith Allen - writing under the alias Carlos Miguel Allende from a small apartment in New Kensington - invented one of the twentieth century's most enduring conspiracy theories. And how, despite his repeated and recorded confessions, the legend he created has continued to outpace the truth across seven decades and counting.
What You'll Discover
The actual ship. USS Eldridge, DE-173 - where she really was on October 28, 1943, documented hour by hour from the surviving war diaries.
The real science. Degaussing, the wartime British invention that demagnetized hulls to defeat German mines - and how an ordinary procedure became, in Allen's imagination, the cover for spacetime manipulation.
The man behind Allende. Allen's full biography, drawn from family records, Marine Corps service files, merchant marine seaman's papers, and the Greeley Tribune obituary that named him in 1994.
The annotated book. What the Office of Naval Research actually saw. Why two career naval officers chose to reproduce it. What the 127 copies of the Varo Edition actually contained.
The confessions. All of them. The 1969 APRO retraction inscribed in brown ink. The 1972 suitcase confession. The 1977 audio recording with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. The October 1980 Fate magazine investigation that named Allen on the public record.
The afterlife. Gray Barker, Brad Steiger, Charles Berlitz, William Moore, Stewart Raffill, Alfred Bielek, Preston Nichols, the Duffer Brothers - the chain of writers, filmmakers, and showrunners who built a billion-dollar mythology on a fabrication its own author could not stop confessing to.
This book gives you the documents. The witnesses. The receipts. The actual physics. And the actual confessions - finally, in one place, after seventy years.
This is the book the legend has been waiting for.
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